Improvement in buckles



UNITED STATES ISAAC BANISTER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 41,900, dated March 15, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAcBANrsTER, of the city of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being herein had to the drawings that accompany this specification, and which make part of the same.

The nature of my improvements consists in so constructing a double buckle that the joint- The strap that holds the buckle in place is attached to the buckle by the lower tongue, and it can be 'fixed to what it is intended to hold without the buckle, and the buckle can be put on or taken off at pleasure, this being an important feature to the workmen, to whom fast buckles are a hinderance.

By forming the holding end of the upper tongue with a slight rise in both edges, as shown in Fig. 5, the strap cannot be made to slip with any reasonable strain, the edges causing the leather to present a square face to the inner edge of the buckle when the tongue is down level with the frame.

'What I claim, and desire to secure, is-

rIhe double buckel, with the joint-bar of one tongue forming the loop for the others strap while the one joint-bar forms the stop or bearing for the lower tongue, when constructed and arranged substantially as herein specied.

ISAAC BANISTER.

Witnesses W. M. GooDINc, Mouais B. LINDSLEY. 

